I feel so cool!!!!

My boss just pointed out that a Q&A piece I wrote is sitting pretty on the front page of the…

How to Rehem Pants

So here’s the thing about sewing: eventually, people will figure out that you do it. And then they will have…

Things have been changing at Chez Sempstress. Well, you win some, you lose some. Last fall I promised mom she…

Most fun thing to ever happen to embroidery: that rat’s nest of tangly-tangly threads on the back of your work…

Scissors don’t come with directions. Much like a screwdriver (the mechanical kind), they are supposedly a tool so simple that…

So my sister has a Halloween party every year. Every year there is a theme. This year’s theme was “Hollywood…

So I’ve been doing a little embroidery lately (which is an odd statement from She Who Doth Not Embroider, but…

Ever wondered how, exactly, pants work*? What kind of crazy pattern-making sorcery goes into drafting a pant? If you’ve ever…

This is a more work-table friendly version of my mathless draft. There’s nothing actually new here; it’s just a more…

So I found this fabulous BBC documentary on the crazy secret world of Haute Couture: It goes into more than…